Feb 17, 2025 | travel, Uncategorized
They had a special winter promotion at the lodge, a reduced rate plus a $15 dollar coupon for breakfast for breakfast both mornings, so that was nice. We started our day with a delicious lodge dining room breakfast. It’s good we had a hearty breakfast because we...
Dec 10, 2023 | travel, Uncategorized
The thing I didn’t mention in my previous post is that while we were hiking I suddenly realized I’d lost my hat. Kevin bought the hats before we went hiking in Wales and they have flaps and are very nice and I was very sad that I’d somehow lost it....
Dec 5, 2023 | travel, Uncategorized
In November Kevin and I drove up to Starved Rock again – we went in 2021 and haven’t been anywhere together since then. How can this be rectified? Must find a cat-sitter willing to care for our herd of cats. They’re very nice cats, BTW, in case you...
Jan 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
After breakfast at the lodge we headed out for another hike, but first I took a picture of these incredibly cute elf bushes. Such a clever idea, I bet I could do that next year but there’s little chance I’ll remember it by then. Our first stop was Wildcat...
Jan 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
After lunch in the dining room, we headed out for St. Louis Canyon at Starved Rock at about 2:30 in the afternoon. It was cold, in the 20s, but the sun was shining which was great. It was funny to start out on this trail which we’d done a few times before,...
Jan 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
On December 8th we spent the night at Starved Rock State Park. Just one night, but it was incredible to get out of town, something we hadn’t done since our trip to Glacier in September of 2019. Yeah, a very long time. I’d booked the overnight to Starved...
Nov 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
and i’m tired. but my house is clean, one of those rare times when it looks pretty good and i wish it looked that way more often. the thing about cleaning is that you get it all done and then it just gets dirty/messy again. meanwhile… as i wrote last time,...
Nov 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
whew, plenty has been going on around here since we got back to spfld at the end of September…like, for example, it’s almost thanksgiving! two more days. must get on it. but backtracking, highlights of this fall: on Monday Sept. 20th we drove up to...
Nov 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
kevin saw these two cute wooly worms. a mother and a baby?! I’ve never seen that before. these were taken the day after our exciting Friday morning of towing our neighbor’s boat out of the water. we got to starved rock too late on Friday for hiking, but...
May 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
as i said, we didn’t intend to hike much on thursday because we were a little beat from wednesday. we drove over to the parking lot for st. louis canyon, so we didn’t have to hike over there. it looked like the canyon was right off the parking lot. but...
Apr 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
last wednesday, we headed out at the crack of 9:00 to start hiking. luckily, the weather had cooled off quite a bit; it had been in the 80s on monday, but by wednesday it was much cooler. even more luckily, we started by walking down these steps in back of the lodge...
Apr 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
i hope you have fun weekend plans, and if you’re here in spfld, i hope they don’t involve any outdoor activities because it’s supposed to rain a lot. but of course you never really know about the weather until you’re actually right there in...
